Repug Inhofe goes to Copenhagen and makes a complete fool of himself

[Nostalgic]

Jim Inhofe gets cool reception in Denmark

By LOUISE ROUG | 12/19/09 7:33 AM EST

COPENHAGEN — Sen. Jim Inhofe flew across the Atlantic and — on little sleep — braved the snow, the cold and the dark to deliver his skeptical message at the international climate conference.

What he found when he got here: a few aides and a single reporter.

“I think he’s going to be a little disappointed,” one of his aides remarked.

Inhofe was at least impatient.

The ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hoped to spread two messages in Copenhagen: Global warming is a hoax, and there’s no way the Senate is going to pass a cap-and-trade bill.

But it was early morning when he arrived at the Bella Center, and the halls were still half-deserted. He walked quickly, brushing off an aide who suggested that he slow down and take a breath.

“I don’t want to breathe — I want to get something done,” he said.

The senator didn’t have any meetings scheduled in Copenhagen, and he did not see chief U.S. negotiator Todd Stern or the members of the House delegation, who were not scheduled to fly in until later in the afternoon.

But Inhofe’s aides eventually rustled up a group of reporters, and the Oklahoman — wearing black snakeskin cowboy boots — held forth from the top of a flight of stairs in the conference media center.

“We in the United States owe it to the 191 countries to be well-informed and know what the intentions of the United States are. The United States is not going to pass a cap and trade,” he said. “It’s just not going to happen.”

A reporter asked: “If there’s a hoax, then who’s putting on this hoax, and what’s the motive?”

“It started in the United Nations,” Inhofe said, “and the ones in the United States who really grab ahold of this is the Hollywood elite.”

One reporter asked Inhofe if he was referring to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Another reporter — this one from Der Spiegel — told the senator: “You’re ridiculous.”

Inhofe ignored the jab, fielded a few more questions, then raced to the airport for the nine-hour flight back to Washington.

After Inhofe left, some reporters were still a bit confused about what had happened and who he was.

“His name is Inhofe,” a German journalist told a Japanese reporter, “but I don’t know if it’s one or two f’s.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30769.html

[ellie]

1. Bwahahahahaha!

At least the rest of the world now understands what the hell we have to deal with in the U.S.

[gratuitous]

2. A Senator trying to dictate foreign policy

I remember not so very long ago that that would have totally discombobulated the Nitwit Brigades, and spurred wall-to-wall coverage on all the talking chucklehead shows about who can and cannot negotiate foreign policy on behalf of the United States. Imagine betraying the President of the United States like Inhofe did during war time!

[sonias]

3. He didn't have to travel to do that

He's an idiot right here in the U.S.

I don’t want to breathe...

Well said idiot, well said!


Sonia

[monmouth]

4. Oh. My. Gawd. This needs to go viral...Really, I want to see this

on Morning Joe, Dylan (I'll watch him for that) and most definitely Keith and Rachel. What an ijit...

[Walk away]

5. I bet this is going to sound a whole lot different when FAUXnews reports it. nt

[anigbrowl]

13. According to some, Politico is the devil's notebook. I think this is proof otherwise. nt

[peacetalksforall]

6. How do you like your bucks he spent - feeding his obsessiveness.

[louis-t]

7. And who paid for his trip?

HmmmmmmmMMMM???

[malaise]

8. Hahahahahahaha

You know I don't have a clue if some of these ignorant assholes have an understanding of the gap between them and most Europeans.

This is freaking priceless. :rofl:

[Nostalgic]

9. This is the guy who once said

in the well of the Senate that global warming was a plot by the Weather Channel to increase their ratings. :spray:

[dmr]

14. He said that?!?

:crazy:

Wish it were on film.

[Shallah Kali]

10. He has also taken taxpayer funded trips to spread the love of Jesus in Africa -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89tb3rBDvoU

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sen-inhofes-jesus-thing
n December, the Oklahoman reported that Sen. James Inhofe had regularly been making trips to Africa, using taxpayer money, in order to spread the gospel of Christ

In the past decade, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Tulsa has made at least 20 trips to Africa as part of a mission that he frequently describes in religious terms.

Inhofe’s African trips have cost taxpayers more than $187,000 since 1999, according to a review of expenses Inhofe and staff members have submitted through the Armed Services Committee.

Inhofe insists that his trips have either been paid for personally or stemmed directly from his work in Congress on humanitarian, national security and economic matters. But Inhofe’s own words make it sound as if these trips are more about using his office and standing as a US Senator in order to evangelize:

Some of the trips have been taken on military planes that cost thousands of dollars an hour to operate. The military does not disclose the cost of flying members of Congress to their destinations.

The trips — which Inhofe has referred to publicly as "a Jesus thing” — have spanned the continent, though the senator has spent most of his time in a few countries, including Uganda and Ethiopia.

In an interview with an Assemblies of God publication in 2002, Inhofe said, "I’ve adopted 12 countries all the way from Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, and Gabon in West Africa as far east as Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. I’m planning to meet with nine presidents in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. My focus will be to meet in the spirit of Jesus.”

…

Inhofe said he wasn’t trying to push a specific religious agenda in Africa and that he considered Jesus "a common denominator” in his meetings with African leaders of different faiths … I’m guilty of two things. I’m a Jesus guy, and I have a heart for Africa.”

In fact, in this video posted today by Faith and Action’s Rob Schenck, it sounds an awful like Inhofe is using these trips for exactly that purpose, as he relates how, before his first trip to Africa, he found out that his daughter was also going to be there doing missionary work and told her that “if you go with me, it’s free.” He also explains that the trips are part of the “politics of Jesus” whereby Christians are instructed to take the name of Jesus to the kings. Being a US Senator, Inhofe says, means Africans think he is important and so he can always get in to see the kings, where he can tell them that he has come “in the spirit of Jesus.” Inhofe even holds up a copy of the Oklahoman featuring the above-mentioned article to defend himself, saying the article is an example of “persecution” and insisting that he is doing this work as a private citizen before trumpeting the fact that, through his work, he has managed to bring entire African villages to Jesus:

[donheld]

11. He left the US, do we have to let him come back?

[boppers]

12. LOL @ "Hollywood elite"

Yeah, I'm sure that'll go over well on a global scale. :eyes:

[bridgit]

15. Inhofe makes a complete fool of himself wherever he goes